Website navigation is a crucial part of your website design. Visitors find their way around you website using your navigation links.
To be effective Your Website Navigation design should allow visitors to quickly and easily reach the parts of the site that they are interested in.
Your site navigation is determined by the information hierarchy of the website i.e. your website layout and by what you want the visitors to see.
Website Navigation Design
When designing your site navigation menus you have several decisions to make:
Positioning The Navigation Bar/menu on the Web Page
Site Navigation menu bars structures and Naming
Site Navigation Link Types- Plain text, graphical etc.
Website Navigation and Internal Links
It is important to remember that the site navigation links represent only part of the internal linking structure. The web pages on your website will still contain other internal links outside of the navigational structure.